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Originating from Waukegan WI, CWKNA9 24 with the UP 3016, a new EMD T4 SD70AH, pulled down to the "Paper House Crossover" between 29 and 30 Main of Proviso Yard just off Lake Street in Northlake IL. After changing crews, a problem arised with the 3016. Cab signals that were needed to proceed West on the Geneva Sub went bad order, so power needed to be swapped around. In the process of swapping power around, the 3016 was set aside on 29 Main which made for a good photo op. They then took the second motor, UP 7243, and tied onto the 3016, then shot back over to 30 Main to tie onto the train. After everything was all said and done, out of town they went with the 7243 as the new leader.
Right off of NS's Moorman Yard, Bunge's little switcher shoves back into their own yard at their grain elevator and oilseed refinery in Bellevue.
LSLX SW8 #905
Bellevue, OH
January 16th, 2022
Maine Northern Railway Train 900-14 makes some switching moves at Skerry Siding on the Madawaska Subdivision.
Out of view behind the train is a massive sawmill owned by Maine Northern's parent company J.D. Irving. The mill makes up a large portion of MNR's traffic, shipping logs to Woodland, lumber, and chips for Irving's papermills in Saint John. Having just spotted a cut of empty chip cars, an army of front end loaders has already started the process of loading the empties. Roughly 50 chip cars, around 20 log cars, and 9 center beams can be loaded at a time. Depending on demand, the mill can be switched on both the north bound and southbound leg of 900's journey.
The empty log cars on the head end are destined for the yard at Fort Kent, where they will be loaded by the TNT Road Company which harvests for Irving Woodlands. Others will go to Irving's Grande-Riviere sawmill in Saint-Leonard, NB to be loaded there.
Maine Northern Railway
Train: 900-14
1/14/2024
Skerry, ME
MNR Madawaska Subdivision
North Western geep 4206 takes a break from switching the quarry west of Downtown Elmhurst on a nice evening in August 1986.
Burlington Northern #240 is seen at Cicero yard switching intermodal cars on June 15th, 1987. I never was a big fan of the BN and didn't live close to it at all but my dad and I did wander around Chicago a lot so I did hit some spots.
BN SW1200 #240 was built by EMD as CB&Q #9282 in July of 1965. Loco may still be around dressed as BNSF 3509.
May 05, 1983, we find the Family Lines "Hammond Local," switching carloads of newsprint into the former Rand-McNally plant in Hammond, IN. Here we see GP-7 #2407 doing the honors with several SOUTHERN Rwy. boxcars. Photo was taken by my friend, the late Mark Stanek, it is out of my collection.
Switch engine idling at Cheongnyangni Station in Seoul, South Korea.
Nikon F801S and Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 on Kodak Portra 400.
North Shore Line trolley/battery motor 456 switches just east of CTA's Skokie Shop in February 1962. Photo by Ed DeRouin, from my collection.
Two former BN units still wearing green, a SD60M and a GP39E, do their switching in Joliet, IL with the L-CHI102.
Another edition of MRL Monday with MRL 251 and 403 switching the elevator at Logan, Montana on the 844 Local.
A well aged CN geep switches the American Chemical Service plant in Griffith, Indiana. This is on all former C&O of Indiana rails. The "J" took over this business once Chessie pulled out. ACS getting a switch seems to be a rarity these days. So, while out on a morning bike ride, I was more than happy to her them banging cars around over here. I headed right over. Shot with a Pentax 67 on Fuji Velvia 100F. All this...located right off of the Oak Savannah bike trail, for your foaming pleasure.
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Great Lakes Central does not normally run on the weekends, but an extra OSTN was called on this Sunday to pick up a large cut of cars from the CSX interchange at Ann Pere in Howell. Now back in Owosso, the crew switches out the train, blocking it out for the next day's northbound. Leading the train is GLC's newest repaint, SD40-2 #382, followed by veteran GP35 #390 and GP38-2 #396.
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Since PR-2 is now an as-needed job called off the extra board, the task of delivering cars to Woonsocket for Ralco Industries now falls to WX-1 from Worcester, which makes for some nice daylight shooting on what is theoretically a nighttime railroad.
Here, WX-1 drops off a couple loads, and retrieves the empties they had delivered two days before. The tractor-trailer in the background will retrieve the plastic pellets the cars are loaded with, and deliver them up the street (literally) to Ralco. The two gons are loads for Riverdale Mills, and will get dropped there on the way back to Worcester.
Metra F59PHI #75 is being used as a shop switcher to position #90 and #402 in position for a publicity photo.
Pour chaque beauté, il y a quelque part un oeil pour la voir.
Pour chaque vérité, il y a quelque part une oreille pour l'entendre.
Pour tout amour il y a un cœur quelque part pour le recevoir.
- YPanin
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For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it.
For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it.
For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.
- YPanin
There are many visual clues in the Chama rail yards to mislead you into thinking that we're fifty years or more in the past. July, 2013.
GP15-1 1531 assisted by CF7 1500 switching in York, Pa. 1500 was the last CF7 built by ATSF. Older pic, recent travels to York have not found it in operation.
Maine Switching Services hauls CSX Sappi-4 up the steep grade into the Sappi mill complex on 6/16/2024.
LTEX GP9u 1585 was added at the mill crossing, since extra power was required to make the hill. The track splitting off from the mill lead runs to a small 7 track yard, the slurry tracks, as well as two spurs into the warehouse. The is another yard to the north of the mill as well as some storage tracks in the former log yard.
Maine Switching Services
Train: Sappi-4
6/16/2024
Hinkley, ME
Sappi Mill Lead